Sorry saskmommy, I should have looked more closely at your posting from 2005, where you do give the URL for Earth Balance. I'm glad to hear others endorsing it as a great product. It is so much better than Fleishmann's, which of course is off limits now anyway.

I wonder when they (Fleishmann's) are going to wake up and put a 'may contain' warning on their packages?? We've been using their salted lactose-free margarine for two years as a cheaper alternative (saving the Earth Balance for baking and popcorn, etc.), and all this time we were playing russian roulette. It's hard to believe that a big company like Fleishmann's could make that kind of mistake. Oh well, they just lost the dairy allergic market.

I know this is not the recipe thread, but since we're on the subject of margarine, I have to share this great frosting recipe:

Melody's Best Ever Vegan Frosting
(created by my friend Melody Tolson, who used to be a pastry chef)

I know what you mean -- my husband preferred Fleischmann's (until the latest word about its safety) because Earth Balance was too hard. But on the plus side, it warms up faster than cold butter. Just a few minutes on the counter seems to do the trick. I wouldn't feel comfy leaving it out all the time.

Cheers,
Lee

p.s. not that anyone's probably reading signatures this closely, but I accidentally wrote in my last message that dd was anaphylactic to pollen. She's not -- she's anaphylactic to milk, peanuts, tree nuts and Pentacel, severe (with GI symptoms only) to egg, and about as sensitive to pollens as the next atopic person.

When we saw ds's dietician last month, she recommended Becel RSF. I haven't contacted the company yet about its safety for those who are milk and soy allergic though (i.e., if it's produced on the same line as their dairy&soy-containing marg's).

I did ask my friend, who said that Unilever told her there wasn't a problem. But I want to follow up.

I'm actually planning on calling Unilever tomorrow and quoting the letter to the editor to them. If the info is true about the casein, we should all know about this. If it's false, well, we should know that too.

Oops, sorry Karen! I didn't check your link before posting - spectrum shortening is coconut oil. I have used it in the past and it adds a really nice flavour. It is quite hard so I keep it in the cupboard, not the fridge.

Has there been a similar discussion about shea butter? (I ask because my daughter's kindergarten teacher loves the stuff and has it in her moisturizer and hand soap. She very graciously brought in a photocopied list of the ingredients in her moisturizer, and after some discussion about it she offered to switch to Glysomed, which is what we use at home. I gave her a big tub of the stuff and she is using it, but the staff washroom at my daughter's school still has a shea butter soap. I am not sure whether to go the extra step and ask them to switch...)

And all of this has nothing to do with margarine, so I should really be posting this elsewhere....but with folks like ethansmom knowing the history of this listserv, I thought I would ask.

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